Brazil officially opened its presidential election campaign season on Tuesday, sending the frontrunners – incumbent conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and socialist ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – to address large crowds of supporters and m…
Author: Frances Martel
U.N. Accuses China of Slavery as Human Rights Chief Stalls on Uyghur Report
The United Nations’ top official on slavery declared in a world report made public on Tuesday that the Chinese Communist Party was actively enslaving members of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan, an occupied region west of China, and has likely e…
China Boasts ‘Increasing Important Role’ in Propping up the Taliban
The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper applauded its bosses on Tuesday for playing “an increasing important role” in helping the Taliban cement its stranglehold on Afghanistan through business ventures, particularly in pursuit of the country’s va…
Socialism: Cuba Offers Chicken, Deodorant as Rewards to First Responders at Largest Fire in Nation’s History
A store in Mayabeque, Cuba, boasted of rewarding first responders for helping extinguish the largest fire in the history of the nation with a meager supply of chicken, deodorant, soda, and cooking oil this week – basic goods that have for decades been …
Taliban Asks World for (Financial) ‘Cooperation’ at Afghanistan Victory Event
Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi urged the world to “cooperate with” the Sunni terrorist organization, rather than “sanction” it, at an event to mark the one-year anniversary of the fall of the government of Afghanistan on Monday.
Beijing Praises Viktor Orban’s Hungary for Embracing Chinese Green Energy Investment
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper praised the government of Hungary under self-proclaimed conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday for greenlighting the construction of a Chinese electric vehicle battery factory and being “r…
China Celebrates Taliban for Giving Afghans ‘Better Security’ One Year Later
China, through its official Foreign Ministry and propaganda arms, celebrated the anniversary of the Taliban jihadist organization seizing power on Monday by repeatedly condemning America for its “failures” in the country and praising the Taliban for it…
A Year After Conquering Afghanistan, the Taliban Are Done Pretending to Be ‘Inclusive’
When the Taliban jihadist organization returned to power in Afghanistan a year ago on Monday, its spokesmen promised one thing above all: the new and improved Taliban regime would be “inclusive.”
Afghanistan: Suicide Bomber Reportedly Uses Prosthetic Leg to Kill Taliban Cleric
Taliban jihadists confirmed the death on Thursday of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, a Taliban cleric known for confronting the terrorist organization on its anti-women’s education stance, at the hands of a suicide bomber reportedly packing explosives in hi…
South American Leftists Revive Call for Regional Currency to Challenge the U.S. Dollar
Colombia – under its first-ever leftist president, ex-guerrilla member Gustavo Petro – revived a longtime far-left hope of creating a unified South American currency to defy the U.S. dollar, the online journal Diario Las Américas reported on Thursday….